Bio

Giovanni Seni is currently a Pattern Recognition Scientist at Anchor Intelligence in Mountain View, CA, a start-up offering analytics solutions to the online advertising industry, and Adjunct Faculty at the Computer Engineering Department of Santa Clara University, where he  teaches an Introduction to Pattern Recognition and Data Mining class.

From 2004 to 2007 Giovanni was a Data Mining Engineer at PDF Solutions, an engineering consulting company for the semiconductor industry, where he pioneered the use of data mining methods for manufacturing defect analysis. From 1999 to 2003 he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Motorola Labs, where he created novel messaging and note-taking user interfaces for small-screen devices.

Giovanni received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship.  His dissertation research was on the use of convolutional neural networks for handwritten text recognition. He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia).

Giovanni's present research interests are in ensemble methods (see his tutorial at KDD-2007), regularization, and techniques for "wide" data.

Giovanni Seni, Ph.D.